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What don't you like about Windows 7?
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New #1592
Nope, a 2 year old can use Windows 7, but if someone insists on changing everything, taking ownership of everything and modifying permissions then they need to do some reading to understand how things work.
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New #1593
Negative: User Account Control. You have it on, it bugs the heck out of you. You turn it off, your computer bugs the heck out of you telling you that it's off.
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New #1594
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New #1595
[QUOTE=WindowsStar;717378]I can't say I really agree with this. Junction points are very nearly a useful feature. However, Microsoft is still too frightened of looking like *nix so they cripple features that would otherwise be very handy.
Why isn't there a very simple method of creating Junction points by the user? I mean without having to use the command line.
Why are Shortcuts still around? They are better served as links...errr, I mean Junctions.
When I drag something to another folder and select to "create a Shortcut" it would be better for everyone if it were "create a Junction." Why is MS afraid of doing that?
Why do I have to run an admin shell to create a Junction? Especially when I want to create a Junction of my own folder to another folder of my own?
Why do they make some very obvious Junction points hidden and make the permissions such that the user cannot use them from Explorer?
It appears that Microsoft went a bit crazy with the file system around Vista. "We are moving 'Documents & Settings' to 'Users' but we want you to be able to get there the old way for compatibility, but we don't want USERS to get there that way because we are so embarassed by the horrid method we used. Also we are changing all of the 'My *' folders to get rid of 'My '. Except that now they are back in Windows 7 because it was too confusing. Confused yet?"
Yes.
It would be handy if they would get a designer to make these decisions rather than having a vote every time a new release of Windows comes out. "Who wants to go back to the old folder names? Lets see a show of hands."
At least all of the user data has migrated to the Users own directory. Except that some of the users data is in hidden folders and some of it still doesn't belong to the user.
Confused yet?
Of course you are, it was designed to be confusing.
I mean MS even tries to confuse themselves. I doubt half of them could tell you if My Documents is a junction to Documents or the other way around. And I defy anyone to explain why "My Pictures" (or Music or Videos) are junctions inside of "Documents" back to folders called "Pictures" outside of "Documents"
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New #1596
+1
The first new thing in Seven I almost fell in love was Libraries. Practical, easy to use and understand.
I have nightmares when I think Seven without UAC. I thank Gods from every possible religion that Microsoft is finally getting there to simplify sys admins job and making it more difficult for a user to make a big mess.
+1, as written above.
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New #1597
You keep comparing Windows to *IX so what is wrong with the command line. Many many things are done from the command line in *IX, if fact that is the only way much of anything could be done until about 5 years ago when the *IX community started trying to make things better for common users.
MS is not afraid of that, it is just they have a log history of doing things this way and a huge user base that knows how they work, is it the best way maybe not but that is how it works.
There are many things I don't like about *IX but I understand that things may have been done one way long ago and now we are stuck with them this way now.
What? Many things are like this in *IX you need to use SU or DOSU to get some system wide change done. This is just like *IX so I have no idea why you would even bring up the question.
Simple, because the basic end user does not need to know they are there nor do they need to work or use them. Since you clearly want to be a Super User on Windows you need to take the time to read, learn and understand how things work, just as you would if you use *IX.
Ok, the whole "My" stuff was that an MS mistake, well I think many in the IT community would say oh yeah! But it was a great marketing idea and for the standard user it gave them a sense of the computer being personal.
MS used a lot of resources and feed back for Windows 7 if I remember the last posted stats showed that they have a huge end user satisfaction approximately 92%. That is amazing if you ask me. Yes there will be the few out there that you can never make happy.
Again, this is because you have not taken the time to learn how Windows 7 works, once you take the time you will completely understand why, how and the train of thought behind this.
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New #1598
There is a third-party extension just for that.
Shortcuts and Junctions are two different things. Lets give an example, you want to put a shortcut of "something.exe" on your desktop. Using a Shortcut "something.exe" will launch in the context of its installation directory "C:\Program Files\SomeVendor". Using a Junction (In the case of files, Symlink) "something.exe" would be seen as an actual executable residing in "C:\Users\[username]\Desktop". You will find this does not work. Shortcuts and Junctions ARE NOT interchangeable.Why are Shortcuts still around? They are better served as links...errr, I mean Junctions.
You don't. Only creating Symlinks require a Administrator power.Why do I have to run an admin shell to create a Junction?
See the last link in my signature. The part to note:Why do they make some very obvious Junction points hidden and make the permissions such that the user cannot use them from Explorer?
Of course, a new opportunity can create a new problem: An application that isn’t familiar with junctions may get stuck in an infinite loop when it attempts to perform a recursive directory-tree walk. To prevent this, the compatibility junctions permit directory traversal but explicitly deny List contents permission: If you try to navigate to these folders from Explorer or the command prompt, you’ll get an Access denied error.The "My " part of the folder names are just visual, the actual folders names are minus the "My " part.Also we are changing all of the 'My *' folders to get rid of 'My '. Except that now they are back in Windows 7 because it was too confusing. Confused yet?"
Pictures, Music, Video used to reside in Document in previous version from Windows XP's era. To keep applications that have hard coded these locations they are transparently redirected to the real locations. This applies to all Junctions that are existing by default.And I defy anyone to explain why "My Pictures" (or Music or Videos) are junctions inside of "Documents" back to folders called "Pictures" outside of "Documents"
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New #1599
Wow! Have you ever done support on Windows? You ever had something that should be instant, like 1 ms, but it takes 10 or 50 seconds and your remove some registry keys and it takes 1 milisecond.
Windows 7 still has explorer. People spend a lot of time in explorer. Explorer is still single threaded. A lot of things are done in explorer and explore does slow down with registry bloat/corruption.
Explorer still sucks in Windows 7 and is still susceptible to slow downs due to registry key errors.
Also, there are lot of processes that have timeouts, such as searching for a UNC share, and guess what happens when you have to wait for such a timeout because of a bad registry key that points to a mapped drive that no longer exists. Well, using a single threaded application, the app shuts down until the timeout expires.
So why you call something a myth that tech support engineers see all the time is beyond me.
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New #1600
After reading some of the responses on this thread I am beginning to wonder if those who are so adamant in their support and defense of Windows 7 are Microsoft employees. Why else would someone attack people like they have been doing here.
